Alert archive / South Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2012
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 26, NWS Columbia, SC
NWS Columbia, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 17, 2012, 5:33 PM EDT for Bamberg County, Barnwell County, Orangeburg County, South Carolina. It was in force for 42 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 17, 2012, 5:33 PM EDT (21:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 17, 2012, 6:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Columbia, SC
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Bamberg County, SC, Barnwell County, SC, Orangeburg County, SC
The radar
The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:36 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 108 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 76 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -170 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1383 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 11 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 58 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 70 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
014
WUUS52 KCAE 172133
SVRCAE
SCC009-011-075-172215-
/O.NEW.KCAE.SV.W.0026.120317T2133Z-120317T2215Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
533 PM EDT SAT MAR 17 2012
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
BAMBERG COUNTY IN CENTRAL SOUTH CAROLINA
SOUTHWESTERN ORANGEBURG COUNTY IN CENTRAL SOUTH CAROLINA
EASTERN BARNWELL COUNTY IN CENTRAL SOUTH CAROLINA
* UNTIL 615 PM EDT
* AT 525 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL...AND
DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 7 MILES
EAST OF BARNWELL...AND MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH.
* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
7 MILES SOUTH OF DENMARK BY 545 PM EDT...
7 MILES SOUTH OF BAMBERG BY 615 PM EDT...
* SOME COMMUNITIES IN THE WARNING AREA INCLUDE DENMARK...
BRANCHVILLE...BLACKVILLE...BARNWELL AND BAMBERG
REPORT LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS OR FLOODING TO YOUR COUNTY
SHERIFF...OR CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE...TOLL FREE 1 877 6 3
3...6 7 7 2.
LAT...LON 3318 8143 3345 8139 3347 8072 3314 8085
3312 8089 3309 8088
TIME...MOT...LOC 2133Z 287DEG 12KT 3323 8121
$$
TTHThe office that day
Everything else NWS Columbia, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 17, 4:12 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CAE | Calhoun, Lexington, Orangeburg | 63 min |
| Mar 17, 4:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Bamberg, Barnwell, Orangeburg | 50 min |
| Mar 17, 4:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Aiken, Barnwell | 45 min |
Nearby
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.